It's more than a 12 hour train ride form Agra to Varanasi, one of the holiest and most opium using cities in India. Varanasi is also one of the most popular cities for people to bring their dead for cremation. There is a flame that has been burning for 5,000 years in one of the temples that is used to light the funeral pyres.
By the time we left the train station and got to the hotel we had enough time to freshen up and get something to eat before we went to an arti prayer session on the ghats along the river. After the ceremony we spent an hour or so walking around shopping and seeing the market.
The next morning we had the option to get up early and see the sunrise in a boat on the river. Only Hannah, Franzi and I got up on time. The pictures below are from the morning, it gave me another chance to play with my camera on different settings in different light. We road in the boat down the river and then got out and walked back to where our cars were. Varanasi is a really old city so the walk back took us through old and winding streets not even big enough for a single car.
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| The ghats before sunrise. |
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| A funeral pyre. |
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